JOHN PAUL II’S ECCLESIOLOGY OF COMMUNIO AS A GIFT TO THE WORLD
JOHN PAUL II’S ECCLESIOLOGY OF COMMUNIO AS A GIFT TO THE WORLD

Summary/Abstract: To the humanity deeply hurt after the original sin, whose union with the Creator has been broken, God continues to offer His gift of a new and eternal communion. Not disregarding all external individual and social signs of the lost communion John Paul II would see their root in man’s heart implicated in sin. Thus the Church, being communio of all with the Father in His Son, is the response and the gift offered to the world in all the stages of its history. When a new millennium was opening before the Church „like a vast ocean”, Blessed John Paul II called us all to go forward in hope. Duc in altum! The missionary mandate urges and impels us to start out anew and „our steps must quicken” as we cross the roads of the world we now live in. We believe that „there is no distance between those who are united in the same communion, the communion that is daily nourished at the table of the Eucharistic Bread and the Word of Life”. When expecting the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that the door of faith is „open for us ushering us into the life of communion with God”. This gift of communio with God we are to share with all men and women, because we believe all people were touched by God and thus made receptive to the mystery of communion offered to all in Christ73. We do it by renewing our own faith and Christian life and bearing witness in the world to the Lord who is for ever the only Redemptor hominis.

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